Food for one year – one meal a day

I was thinking recently that if it came down to it, we could survive on one meal a day for one year – if we HAD to. So…I sat down with a legal pad and my recipe file and made a list of 30 meals that could be eaten each month, then calculated the the [...]

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Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink

Er…in my case, rice, rice everywhere and none to cook with! I learned a valuable food storage lesson recently.  I normally keep a quart jar of long grain white rice in my pantry so there’s not a huge bag open at one time.  I had already put most of the 50 pound bags we’d purchased [...]

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Are we there yet?

As in, have we hit bottom yet?  I don’t think so based on lots of late night, bleary-eyed searches on the internet.  I heard this morning on the news that GM will need another $70 BILLION dollars in help before this is all said and done. At what point is it enough? I’ve been pondering [...]

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Prepared, not panicked

(said in my best monotone voice): This is a test of your preparedness system.  This is only a test.  If it were a real emergency, you would be required to use your preparedness stores for survival. This is only a test. Are you ready? If nothing else, this past week with the swine flu (aka [...]

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Emergency Buckets – “Grab & Go” Food

This should be part of every family’s emergency plans – food ready to go at a moment’s notice along with all of your other provisions (you do have a bag with a change of clothes and a toothbrush at the very least, right?  ). If you have to evacuate your home in a hurry, it [...]

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